Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...members of the Carnegie Endowment board during Hiss's term as president, Stevenson went on, was General Eisenhower-and Eisenhower was still a member of the board when it twice refused to let Hiss resign after he had been indicted for perjury. Said Stevenson: "I bring these facts to the American people not to suggest that either General Eisenhower or John Foster Dulles is soft toward Communists ... I bring them out only to make the point that the mistrust, the innuendoes, the accusations which this [Republican] 'crusade' is employing threatens not merely themselves, but the integrity...
...therefore deem it advisable to resign, and we wish our successor in office the best of luck...
...private fund to pay some of his political expenses as a U.S. Senator (TIME, Sept. 29). Telephone calls poured into the hotel from G.O.P. bigwigs across the nation: some told him to fight, others told him that for the good of the party he must resign. Three hours before his broadcast Nixon sent his advisers away and ordered his telephone cut off. "I dont want to talk to anybody," he snapped as he closed his door...
...formally resigned from the party. "Brother," he was told, "you don't resign . . . You are expelled." "This pall has been hanging over me for twelve or more years," he went on. "I cannot live with it any more." Said Senator Ferguson: "It is very refreshing to realize that there has finally been a place that you could come to . . . that a man can come in and testify and free his soul...
...H.L.U. member, who desired his name be withheld, said he would resign from the organization if it backs Dever this year. Another, Martin H. Needler '54, called Dever "a bad choice between two evils," and suggested the group endorse neither he nor his opponent, Christian A. Herter...